On 3/20/2012 1:19 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/20/2012 12:22 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 3/19/2012 1:29 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 3/19/2012 1:10 PM, jk wrote:
wrote:



You can't cite any, of course. Your "book" is ****. All it says is
that
Dole made money. It doesn't say when.

I haven't read the book. All I have done is look it over in the
library.
But it was written not by a political opponent but by someone who
was on
his staff for a long time. Besides that, who would write a book called
Senator for Sale if the senator in question had not made much money
from
his official connections? Obviously the writer presents evidence that
Dole at least acted unethically in how he gained a lot of money, not
just a few bucks.

So you haven't read the book, and yet you are telling us what it
"obviously" says based solely on the title????????????????
For all you know then, it could be a complete refutation of that
premise.

Even taking the highly politicized, deeply biased title at face value,
it *still* doesn't say what Hawke-Ptooey claims to know: that Dole made
his fortune while sitting in the Senate by extorting money from anyone.

Maybe if you had read what it says on the inside dust cover of the book
like I did you would know what the book is about. The book is about the
way Dole went about making himself rich from his position as a senator.

You haven't read the book. The hack author was an aide to Dole for a
short time in 1979 and 1980, by his own admission. I already produced a
citation showing that Dole and his wife were worth about $750,000 in
1976. That scurrilous ****bag Hilton had no association with Dole after
1980. Is he claiming to know that Dole made millions of dollars in four
years?

You didn't read the book. You don't know what it says. Once again, you
reveal yourself to be a partisan hack who believes anything about the
opposition without any critical thinking.

You are incapable of critical thinking.


You assume more than anyone I've come across in ages. I told you already
that this book is not what I know about Bob Dole. I have only looked at
it in a cursory way. So it is way down on the list of the evidence I've
heard and seen regarding Dole over his decades in the senate. You know
nothing about his reputation as a senator. I do.

The fact of the matter is that it is you who has no knowledge about Bob
Dole. All you know is what you are currently looking up on Google and
Wiki. Dole is a politician whose career I have followed for decades. I'm
very familiar with him, and you stupidly think the only thing I ever
heard about Dole is from one book I haven't even read. You assume so
much it really renders you a fool. It also helps you not at all in
knowing how much I know about Bob Dole.

Hawke